Spring Awakening, 2006

The run closed January 18, 2009

Opened

December 10, 2006

Closed

January 18, 2009

Performances

859

Previews

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Theatre

Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 23rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Spring Awakening 2 more that season

Who was in it36 named

Lea Micheleb. 1986

Jonathan Groffb. 1985

John Gallagher Jr.b. 1984

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Skylar Astin—

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Lilli Cooper—

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Brian Charles Johnson—

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Lauren Pritchard—

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Phoebe Strole—

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Jonathan B. Wright—

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Remy Zaken—

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Stephen Spinellab. 1956

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Christine Estabrookb. 1952

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Krysta Rodriguez—

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Matt Doyle—

A

Andrew Durand—

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Glenn Fleshler—

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Caitlin Kinnunen—

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Kristine Nielsen—

Gerard Canonico
Robert Hager
Blake Bashoff
Drew Tyler Bell
Kate Burton
Amanda Castanos
Blake Daniel
Emma Hunton
Morgan Karr
Emily Kinney
Alice Lee
Hunter Parrish
Zach Reiner Harris
Kyle Riabko
Matt Shingledecker
Alexandra Socha
Jesse Swenson
Gabriel Violett

19 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters14 roles recorded

Kyle Riabko Melchior
Christy Altomare Wendla
Blake Bashoff Moritz
Steffi DiDomenicantonio Ilse
Andy Mientus Hänschen
Sarah Hunt Martha
Ben Moss Ernst
Stephen Spinella Adult men
Christine Estabrook Adult women
Matt Shingledecker Georg
Anthony Lee Medina Otto
Gabrielle Garza Anna
Kimiko Glenn Thea
Alexandra Winter (voice Gretl

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Michael Mayer

Choreographer

Bill T. Jones

Producer

Ira Pittelman, Tom Hulce, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Atlantic Theater Company, Jeffrey Sine, Freddy DeMann, Max Cooper, Mort Swinsky, Cindy Gutterman, Jay Gutterman, Joe McGinnis, Judith Ann Abrams, ZenDog Productions, CarJac Productions, Aron Bergson Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, Ted Snowdon, Harold Thau, Terry E. Schnuck, Cold Spring Productions, Amanda Dubois, Elizabeth Eynon Wetherell, Jennifer Maloney , Tamara Tunie, Joe Cilibrasi and StyleFour Productions; Associate

Orchestrations

Duncan Sheik

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 8 from 11 nominations

Around this production

The handheld microphones were a deliberate choice: when characters burst into song, they pulled mics from their pockets, signaling a shift from the repressive 19th-century world to their uncensored inner lives.

The cast of Spring Awakening enjoys the spotlight. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 470

• Director Michael Mayer shepherded Spring Awakening throughout a seven-year trail of workshops, concerts, and rewrites before the show opened at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company in May of 2006. The show then repeated its success when it moved to Broadway that fall. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 329
• 2007: The Coast of Utopia, Radio Golf (A), Spring Awakening (M) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 433
• Best New Play: Spring Awakening (Zeitgeist Stage Company) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 443
• Spring Awakening 859 performances Opened December 10, 2006 Closed January 18, 2009 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 457
• Spring Awakening; the vaudevillian movie adaptation The 39 Steps, a hit both on Broadway and Off- (oddly enough, in that order); Donald Margulies’ war-haunted domestic drama Time Stands Still Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's angsty-teen musical Spring Awakening Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 346

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No recording is held for Spring Awakening at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.